Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I hate you...because one time you're treating me we're okay,you're showing me you like me but afterwards its like I'm nothing...i guess… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to play a round of golf together. Imagine the two of them at… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Novelists are people who have discovered that they can dampen their neuroses by writing make-believe. We will keep on doing that no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The curious thing about the Ready-Made is that I've never been able to arrive at a definition or explanation that fully satisfies… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
There is another kind of altruism that seems to go beyond that, a kind of super-altruism, which humans appear to have. And… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
How scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
A garter. You’re supposed to take it off and keep it as a memento. K-k-kinda like a trophy for going far sexually… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
You see, when a nation threatens another nation the people of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their political differences,… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
We are so impressed by scientific clank that we feel we ought not to say that the sunflower turns because it knows… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations,… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I read somewhere, one, that crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists have been able to pretend to know how complex biological systems originated only because they treated them as black boxes.… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war,… — Hanoi Hannah Copy Share Image
The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin,… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
There are chemical and other explanations for addictions, but speaking from my own observations (and I am a shamanic type), there is… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
While about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, you won't find many exhibits on these spooky beings down at the local science… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
It's human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation (particularly… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
Explanations are clear but since no one to whom a thing is explained can connect the explanations with what is really clear,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
As far as I am concerned, a painting speaks for itself. What is the use of giving explanations, when all is said… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“Remember that we sometimes demand explanations for the sake not of their content, but of their form. Our requirement is an architectural… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
there have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Nobody reads anymore in America. Reading has become the least effective delivery system for narrative. That's sad because prose is the means… — David Simon Copy Share Image
The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially… — Samuel Witwer Copy Share Image
For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
One of the things I found is that the things we want to say for well-intentioned motives often cause more harm than… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
